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Drones at Gatwick

Finding it very hard to understand how the Police that can't find those flying Drones, disrupting people's travel seeing as they have been flying for 12 hours and apparently one is still flying now! What am I missing?
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  • Finding it very hard to understand how the Police that can't find those flying Drones, disrupting people's travel seeing as they have been flying for 12 hours and apparently one is still flying now! What am I missing?

    With the range some of these drones have, what chance do the police have?
  • MuttleyCAFC
    MuttleyCAFC Posts: 47,728
    edited December 2018
    Surely the signal can be picked up if you have 12 hours to do so!
  • Elthamaddick
    Elthamaddick Posts: 15,810
    shoot it down?
  • MuttleyCAFC
    MuttleyCAFC Posts: 47,728
    But you want to find the culprit as they may just send more up!
  • JohnBoyUK
    JohnBoyUK Posts: 9,017
    Most drones only have a battery life of 20-25 mins at a time. They must have a whole team of drones to get one up and replace it.

    It is my understanding that there is technology availoable to stop drones flying into certain areas, works on the same principal of a radar jammer.
    I would have thought Gatwick will be investing in it now.
  • palarsehater
    palarsehater Posts: 12,296
    to the people guilty of doing it i severely hope they are caught and there privates removed with a rusty spoon bastards
  • palarsehater
    palarsehater Posts: 12,296
    surely the drone should be shot down and then the perpetrator afterwards - would maybe curb this sort of behaviour
  • MuttleyCAFC
    MuttleyCAFC Posts: 47,728
    edited December 2018
    Apparently you cant as they operate on the same frequency as a lot of things including mobile phones. There is technology for this problem, working within a 5 mile radius of an airport, but it has yet to be implemented. Thanks Google!
  • SuedeAdidas
    SuedeAdidas Posts: 7,738
    They are not up there all of the time. They are popping up intermittently.

    I would think that any type of electrical countermeasure would need extensive testing where live planes will be going in/out.

    The police have said it’s too risky to just shoot them down.
  • DaveMehmet
    DaveMehmet Posts: 21,594

    surely the drone should be shot down and then the perpetrator afterwards - would maybe curb this sort of behaviour

    The police are saying it’s too dangerous to shoot it down, as bullets could ricochet.
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  • MuttleyCAFC
    MuttleyCAFC Posts: 47,728
    edited December 2018
    You would think somebody might see/report one low, which might point to the source!
  • i_b_b_o_r_g
    i_b_b_o_r_g Posts: 18,948
  • You would think somebody might see/report one low, which might point to the source!

    A smart person would stash them around the surrounding area then retreat somewhere else to control them.

    I don't think the police can take the blame for this one!
  • MuttleyCAFC
    MuttleyCAFC Posts: 47,728
    But for 12 hours they are going to need a lot or they have to re-charge surely!
  • Makes a change from ministers droning on at Westminster
  • Greenie
    Greenie Posts: 9,172
    My BIL is a tech nerd, he is quite wealthy and loves gadgets, he bought a drone ealier in the year, its huge, it has a range of about 10 miles IIRC, and also has a function that when the battery starts going flat it flies back to the controller automatically.
    So the operator can be miles away and still cause chaos......come to think of it, my BIL has not been been since he went out yesterday afternoon....I wonder....?
  • Rizzo
    Rizzo Posts: 6,431
    I'd guess that this is a co-ordinated effort by the perpetrators, aimed at causing maximum disruption with minimal effort. As Stu said above, stash a bunch of drones around the area and then control them from somewhere else. Hard to detect or counter.
  • Cant the police just get their own drones in the air to follow the other drones back to where they're coming from?
  • MuttleyCAFC
    MuttleyCAFC Posts: 47,728
    When they catch these people they should be given as harsh a punishment as possible. I mean, vital organs for operations can be flown in to Airports too. I would give them 10 years.
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  • Justin20474
    Justin20474 Posts: 756
    edited December 2018
    It’s all been arranged by the airlines, cancel a load of flights not there fault, then sell tickets for the following few days at a massively increased price 😠😮💷 allegedly
  • WSS
    WSS Posts: 25,070
    edited December 2018
    Sounds like a job for:

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  • palarsehater
    palarsehater Posts: 12,296

    When they catch these people they should be given as harsh a punishment as possible. I mean, vital organs for operations can be flown in to Airports too. I would give them 10 years.

    10 years fuck that wouldn't waste a cell on them, these tech types have 0 common sense.
  • i_b_b_o_r_g
    i_b_b_o_r_g Posts: 18,948

    When they catch these people they should be given as harsh a punishment as possible. I mean, vital organs for operations can be flown in to Airports too. I would give them 10 years.

    I'd hang em from their own drone
  • carly burn
    carly burn Posts: 19,458
    Russians that is.
  • Seems like a lot of hassle to go to, to keep flying these intermittently for hours on end and all through the night. Strikes me as something a lot more serious than just some tech nerds having a laugh.
  • MuttleyCAFC
    MuttleyCAFC Posts: 47,728
    edited December 2018
    And I assume these are not the cheap drones that would have a limited range and are rubbish in winds!
  • Valiantphil
    Valiantphil Posts: 6,410
    Probably the Ruskies at it again.
  • SantaClaus
    SantaClaus Posts: 7,651
    Not a bad way to extort money from an airport operator.